Pace 1132 Test

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Agreement to end trade restrictions between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico

NAFTA

Plan for a space-based defense system

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

The first female Supreme Court Justice

Sandra Day O'Connor

Americans elected ___, a political outsider, as their 45th President

Donald Trump

"The last best hope for peace"

United Nations

The first African American candidate to be nominated for President, won and became the 44th President in the U.S.

Barack Obama

The first American to orbit Earth

John Glenn, Jr.

Boris Yeltsin became the first President of

Russia

Law that prohibited discrimination in voting, education, employment and public business

1964 Civil Rights Bill

Location of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that was destroyed by a truck bomb in 1995

Oklahoma City

Profits from weapon sales to Iran supported the Contras

Iran-Contra affair

The first President not elected to either the Vice Presidency or the Presidency

Gerald Ford

The leader of the organization behind the terrorist attack

Osama bin Laden

Vetoed twice by President Clinton, making partial- birth abortions illegal

Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act

The most significant piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama was the ________ Act also known as "Obamacare"

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

After the overthrow of Aristide, thousands of people fled Haiti and tried to enter

The United States

Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by the rebel army of___ on January 1, 1959

Fidel Castro

Commanded the UN troops in Korea during the Korean War

General Douglas MacArthur

In March 2003, President George W. Bush ordered an invasion of__

Iraq

The civil rights leader assassinated in Tennessee

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Formed for the protection of West Germany and for mutual defense against further Soviet expansion

NATO

The two leading Communist nations that opposed the U.S. during the Cold War were ___ and ___

Soviet Union and China

Was designed to give all American children equal educational opportunities

No child Left Behind Act

Longest military conflict in United States history

Vietnam War

After the Soviets blocked all ground traffic in and out of West Berlin, the west responded with the

Berlin airlift

Was the three-part objective in the War on Terror

Overthrowing the Taliban, Capturing Osama bin Laden, and destroying the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Resigned in 1974 due to his involvement in the Watergate scandal

Richard Nixon

Iraq violated her agreement to destroy all her chemical and biological weapons and to allow ___ to conduct a thorough investigation of all weapon facilities

the United Nations

Civil war began in Bosnia because

the serbs opposed independence from Yugoslavia

In 1954, the Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in public schools was__

unconstitutional

Era of tension between the communist and free nations

Cold War

The most powerful body___, the Security Council is responsible for maintaining international peace

Untied Nations

Place where President Reagan authorized military action to prevent it from becoming a Soviet outpost

Grenada

Also called Operation Desert Storm

Persian Gulf War

During the Carter Administration, ownership of the Panama Canal was handed over to

Panama

Ruled Iran after the shah was deposed

Ayatollah Khomeini

Invaded Kuwait in 1990, led to the Persian Gulf War

Iraq

The first astronaut to walk on the moon

Neil Armstrong

The date of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in New York City and near Washington, D.C.

September 11, 2001

Structure designed to keep East Germans from escaping West Germany

Berlin Wall


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